JOHN CONLEE WITH DAVIS LOOSE

John Conlee’s hits have rarely been songs that see life through the hard-fact-hiding “Rose Colored Glasses” described in his first smash record of 1978. Through all the years since, his emphasis has been on songs of the lives of everyday people — middle class, hardworking people, and those who’ve been unable to attain even that level of economic ease. He made a fresh hit again of “Busted,” when country fans might have thought Ray Charles and Johnny Cash had enjoyed the last word on that one. He had us nodding in agreement to the tough realities of “Nothing Behind You, Nothing in Sight.”

“There are more of us ordinary folks than anybody else,” says the big-voiced baritone whose hits also include “Common Man,” “Working Man,” and “Friday Night Blues.”

When John Conlee looks at love, the view includes Harlan Howard and Bobby Braddock’s searing “I Don’t Remember Loving You” — and he has no trouble singing about being on the “Backside of Thirty.”

No-nonsense John grew up on a 250-acre Kentucky farm where he raised hogs, cultivated tobacco with mules, and mowed pastures. He also worked as a funeral home attendant and mortician, and as a pop music disc jockey in Nashville before settling into a career in country music during the mid-1970s. It’s typical of John that he used the returns from that long string of No. 1 hits (four in 1983 and 1984 alone) to get back to farm life himself.

“I spend all of my off-time, what I have of it, with my family on our farm,” John explains. “I enjoy it. There’s no glamour to it. Woodworking, gunsmithing or driving a tractor requires getting grease or varnish all over you. It’s dirty work, but I like it.”

DAVIS LOOSE

Raised in St. Augustine, Florida, at an early age, Davis found his love for country music. He picked up a guitar at age 11 and started writing songs, playing local bars and festivals around the state of Florida. At age 19, Davis moved to Nashville to pursue his dream of being a country music artist. He has performed on world renowned stages like the Bluebird Cafe and The Listening Room. Since moving to Nashville, Davis has penned songs with songwriters such as Mark Irwin, Russel Sutton, Bridgette Tatum, McCoy Moore, Dan Smalley, Tom Perkins and Marty Stuart, just to name a few. Davis has opened for acts such as Travis Tritt, Muscadine Bloodline, Walker Montgomery, The Steel Drivers, Dan Tymynski & Randy Houser. Davis is in Nashville permanently pursuing a lifelong career in the Country Music Industry.